Sentences with phrase «as consumerist»

As Consumerist and Clarke observe, there were no cell phone towers or satellites in the 1920s, so how could the woman in the movie be talking on a cell phone unless she was a time traveler?

(As Consumerist put it, Tobin was correct about the potpourri, «except for the «pourri» part»).

As the Consumerist put it, «would you buy a house if you knew a murder or suicide had taken place there?»

As The Consumerist says, «This is a profitable business for grocery and big - box stores, but also leads to problems: serving ready - to - eat food means that they risk serving ready - to - eat pathogens, too.»

And as Consumerist reader Micah found out, no amount of begging and pleading is going to change that.

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The Duke decision is the product of what Hauerwas has so often described as the consumerist individualism of liberal capitalism.

Kwanzaa, most readers will recall, is a recently contrived African American seven - day celebration that runs from December 26 through January 1, and has been much criticized by blacks and others as a commercial gimmick designed to demonstrate that blacks can be as consumerist as anybody else.

Not exact matches

by Lori Gottlieb — a single mother who conceived her only child with donor sperm rather than miss out on motherhood as she has on marriage — is a frank and excruciatingly personal look into some of the sexual revolution's lonelier venues, including the creation of children by anonymous or absent sperm donors, the utter corrosiveness of taking a consumerist approach to romance, and the miserable effects of advancing age on one's sexual marketability.

She proposes a kenotic spirituality as an antidote to «the overindulgence of consumerist society.»

Otherwise we are back where we began: with officially exorcised but practically, dominant programs of Western and modern stories of progress; with monological forms of rationality and increasingly brittle notions of a self seemingly coherent but actually possessive and consumerist; with «others» present, if at all, only as projections of our modem selves, our desires, wants, needs.

Further, in the consumerist market, while the bodies of the women are converted as commodities, they are also co-opted into the mechanism as the single largest consumers in commodity mass production.

The consumerist market forces a crisis in the being of woman when they were turned as puppets at the interest of the market.

Or atheist values... satisfy your senses as much as possible while you're alive (which often leads to a consumerist state — i.e., America) which also led to Islamists hating us.

The kind of reading we practice approximates what Paul J. Griffiths has called «religious reading,» as distinct from «consumerist reading,» which makes us users, buyers and sellers of texts.

We expect from him, and even, as they nowadays say, privilege, his uncompromising adversary voice, particularly if it attacks bourgeois, consumerist democracy.

As more parents express concerns about the consumerist and hedonistic youth culture that their children are exposed to in mass media, they naturally favor schools that filter out its worst elements and focus young minds on worthier things.

The lighting in the produce section has been carefully chosen and placed to make everything look as enticing as possible, both to convince you that, yes, this is the week to finally try making something with chayote, and to get your brain thinking that maybe, just maybe, it is feeling a tad peckish, as you begin your stroll toward the consumerist version of Oz.

But whereas Warhol's «Campbell's Soup Cans» made waves in 1962 as a commentary on post-war consumerist society, today's fashion creatives are much more complicit.

I don't fall prey to the consumerist mentality of always needing more as often.

Yet it is hard to hold any of it against her, as she is simply the result of an American consumerist society, where nothing but material things are supposed to make one feel fulfilled, happy and successful.

Yet this is no normal road trip: genius auteur Jean - Luc Godard's tenth feature in six years is a stylish mash - up of consumerist satire, politics, and comic - book aesthetics, as well as a violent, zigzag tale of, as Godard called them, «the last romantic couple.»

Holed up in this consumerist dream space, they play dress - up, host a dinner, are visited by ghosts, watch coverage of their attack on display model TVs, and act out fantasy lives — only to have it all come to a halt when Nocturama reveals itself as the bleak, desperate genre movie it's been all along.

This is the same dishonest gesture offered by standard Miramax period «art - movie» fluff such as Shakespeare in Love, an attempt to flatter us that we're somehow getting something serious and educational, not simply consumerist and sensational.

The consumerist logic of throwing out the old to usher in an inferior replacement is a knee - jerk way of thinking that is every bit as destructive when it's applied to movies.

Whereas many saw the previous eight UN Millennium Development Goals (2000 - 2015) as targeting only poor countries, putting sustainability at the centre of this new program of work extends the challenge to include the consumerist societies of the global north.

Important considerations here are that food security (and sovereignty) requires as much of the provisioning as possible to happen through localized production and consumption networks, that agriculture is based on organic, biologically diverse inputs, that the enormous waste of food characterizing the consumerist class is eliminated, and that for the extreme poor who do not have access to either the means of production or food itself, there needs to be rights - based schemes ensuring such access.

EA beat such companies as Bank of America, Comcast, Anheiser - Busch, AT&T, and Ticketmaster in Consumerist's poll, and by no small margin: 78 percent of the overall vote by readers.

Bargain - hungry gamers everywhere have reacted in delight to the latest Steam sale, excited by the possibility of once again acting as blind consumerist pigs for big publishing houses.

EA is no longer the worst company in America as per a consumerist website survey.

Controversy surrounded Mass Effect 3 «s ending, and voters at the Consumerist chose EA as the «worst company in America.»

As a descendent of Marcel Duchamp and Andy Warhol, and after Pop art had magnified critical interest in consumerist culture, Prince's «rephotographs» could be seen as a cynical representation of reality, and as a piercing inquiry into the ethos of the American vernaculaAs a descendent of Marcel Duchamp and Andy Warhol, and after Pop art had magnified critical interest in consumerist culture, Prince's «rephotographs» could be seen as a cynical representation of reality, and as a piercing inquiry into the ethos of the American vernaculaas a cynical representation of reality, and as a piercing inquiry into the ethos of the American vernaculaas a piercing inquiry into the ethos of the American vernacular.

As the press text explains, «Stefania Fersini's paintings offer meditations on representations of women in fashion magazines and the linchpin consumerist node of appearance.

Arman's profusion of West African art was collected partly in response to the scarcity he experienced as a child during the Second World War; so too was Andy Warhol's obsessive collecting of the American consumerist ephemera that was absent from his deprived Pittsburgh childhood.

The golf course as a leisurely symbol of consumerist society serves as a counterpoint to issues relating to migration, global warming and globalisation that eventually come to the fore.

Teruya's bags are emblazoned with the names of hugely popular global brands such as McDonalds and Louis Vuitton, while Carey's piece is made out of daily newspapers and, as such, the works of both artists may be seen to embody our throwaway consumerist attitude.

Drawing inspiration from the radically confrontational Viennese Actionists and the Happenings of Allan Kaprow and others, McCarthy quickly strayed away from his initial interest in painting and in the 1970s began composing performances with the goal of physically disrupting the sense of material comfort, general apathy, and violent cultural dissolution that he viewed as the results of the United States» consumerist, entertainment - driven mass media and popular culture.

However, instead of creating slickly - made celebrations of contemporary culture or painting commodities that Americans desired, as Warhol and James Rosenquist habitually did, Polke subverted the colourful, consumerist optimism with tawdry materials, deliberately off - key printing and random splashes of paint that implied a world that was not rising ever - upwards, but slowly fracturing apart.

Very much up - to - date with the latest happening within consumerist culture and the news of the world, she issues commentary that sometimes gets adopted as the mantra of the very group it targets, in this case the compulsive shoppers.

The show will present examples of Bickerton's earlier consumerist work as well as his tropically - coloured mixed - media paintings, which explore themes varying from fantastic eroticism and nightmares, to «the end of the world».

The sculptures of César Baldaccini, better known simply as César, often combine allusions to the classical past with playful nods to the ephemeral values of the consumerist present.

Mellor states that «The paintings of this fashioned minority group of camp icons are vulnerable to my own diarist situations... overloaded collusions of identity, bombardment of consumerist products and imagery, psychological trauma, political and financial impotency and so on as a catalogue of felt experiences of the isolation, frustration and anxiety of the urban condition.»

The work of the artist, since the beginning of his career, has been dominated by themes such as violence, the relationship with media, drugs, mental illnesses, pop culture, consumerist compulsion, sex, pollution.

«Resistance - Subjecter», enclosed in glass windows, show under the neon light that stereotype of femininity imposed by the Western consumerist world, a figure that is actually the most common representation of the woman nowadays; Hirschhorn's women literally corrode this model presenting themselves as an army of modified human beings carrying the evidence of an interior cancer crystallized on their frigid bodies.

In addition, the imagery and colour schemes for most Pop - art painting and sculpture was taken from high - profile and easily recognizable consumerist or media sources such as: consumer goods, advertising graphics, magazines, television, film, cartoons and comic books.

These frames are a simple tool used to challenge the visual language of consumerist culture, discovering how easy it is to imbue value into a previously worthless item and how easily swayed society is by a construction as simple as a frame, a glass case or a label.

Koons, Jeff (b. 1955) Neo-Pop sculptor who uses mass - produced consumerist objects as works of art.

Where a consumerist culture would allow the objectification of identity for the purpose of capital gain; Kruger uses the same language to satirise, or even alienate as an antithesis to the seductions of advertising media.

Taking from Pop Art's exploration of commodities and the anthropomorphic qualities of goods, Craig - Martin's acrylic paintings take mass - produced objects from the consumerist age as subject matter, depicting these quotidian items in graphical lurid colours and outlined in black line drawing.

Huang Yong Ping and Chen Zhen are Chinese - born artists living in Paris who share deep spiritual and metaphysical roots in Taoist thought and employ Western avant garde art strategies to explore such contemporary concerns as the interplay of nature and the artificial; tradition versus progress; and history and ideology in a worldwide consumerist society.